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Date:      Tue, 9 Nov 2004 11:15:15 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Odd error at end of "make installworld"
Message-ID:  <20041109091515.GE43113@ip.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20041108154129.C64EC5D04@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20041108154129.C64EC5D04@ptavv.es.net>

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On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 07:41:29AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I think there is a small issue with the Makefile, although I don't see
> exactly what. But I'm no great shakes on Makefiles.
>=20
> At the very end of the installworld, after completely the makewhatis and
> /etc stuff, I got the message that I should not be doing a make world:
> WARNING: make world will overwrite your existing FreeBSD
> installation without also building and installing a new
> kernel.  This can be dangerous.  Please read the handbook,
> 'Rebuilding world', for how to upgrade your system.
> Define DESTDIR to where you want to install FreeBSD,
> including /, to override this warning and proceed as usual.
> You may get the historical 'make world' behavior by defining
> HISTORICAL_MAKE_WORLD.  You should understand the implications
> before doing this.
>=20
> Bailing out now...
>=20
> But I had not done a 'make world'. I did the standard sequence with a
> re-boot after installkernal, a mergemaster -p, and installworld. Since
> this message is the second invocation of "world:" in Makefile, I suspect
> it needs to be worked on a bit.
>=20
> FWIW, I was updating from 5.3-Stable of last Wednesday to -Stable of
> last evening (to get Nate's ACPI patches).
>=20
Hmm, maybe you typed "make install world", with a space between
"install" and "world"?


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

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